Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boherroe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherroe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.54871, -8.39987
- SMR number
- LI024-032----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In improved pasture, on a gentle E-facing slope, 135m NW of a townland boundary with Ballynagally. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map with laneway leading off E side of earthwork leading to a farmyard. Shown on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped platform (41m N-S; 39m E-W) bisected by a farm trackway running E-W. Described by O’Dwyer (1959-60, 112) as a platform (diam. 126ft/38.4m; H 4ft/1.2m) enclosed by a well preserved, almost continuous bank, and a ditch (Wth11ft/3.4m), which is missing for a short distance at W. The ringfort is known locally as Caherconreefy and is crossed by a farm track.
Caherconreefy ringfort surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as no surface remains visible. Area bisected by a farm trackway running E-W, with portion of monument to N in pasture and remainder to S in farmyard. According to local information this ringfort was levelled approx. 40 years ago. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached a profile of monument drawn by O’Dwyer in 1959 and a Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 September 2020
References
O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.